The height of bad manners

lulu1

I have to say I hate people using their mobile phones in company.

A few nights ago myself and my daughter and a few other friend
Before we went out I said to my daughter that she was not to take out the mobile while we were in company.
To give her her dues she didn't use the phone
We sat down for the meal and the other girl there (15) takes out her phone and never left it down during the whole meal. Mind you she only had the soup which she drank with one hand while she was texing with the other.
It really was bad manners and her mother made no attempt to tell her to put it away.

We said our goodbye's and believe it or not she was still texting

The Backwards Man

What height is she?

dee_mc

Terrible manners not to use a spoon, painful too I'd imagine?

lulu1

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What height is she?

Hey I am positive you heard that saying a thousand times in your neck of the woods

anncoates

Leave them on their phones at that age, I say. Means you don't have to listen to their conversation.

lulu1

dee_mc wrote: »

Terrible manners not to use a spoon, painful too I'd imagine?

Was waiting on that one:)

The Backwards Man

lulu1 wrote: »

Hey I am positive you heard that saying a thousand times in your neck of the woods

We use the word 'epitome'

retro:electro

I see that too with my sister, and she writes crap like "omg lol" "dying" "can't breathe" "hilarious" "so funny" etc. while her facial expression in reality has not changed one bit.
I was sitting beside her once and saw her write to someone on facebook "I'm literally crying laughing at this", but in reality she was half asleep.

lulu1

The Backwards Man wrote: »

We use the word 'epitome'

Hold on I must check the dictionary

silverfeather

lulu1 wrote: »

Hold on I must check the dictionary

But not in company After of course. :P

One eyed Jack

anna080 wrote: »

I see that too with my sister, and she writes crap like "omg lol" "dying" "can't breathe" "hilarious" "so funny" etc. while her facial expression in reality has not changed one bit.
I was sitting beside her once and saw her write to someone on facebook "I'm literally crying laughing at this", but in reality she was half asleep.

ROFLMAO!!!


No, seriously though, that did give me a bit of a chuckle, but only because I see it with so many people so often, adults, not even teenagers!

And the selfies, christ almighty, you'd swear they have themselves convinced people could never tire of their latest duckface, mad bastard, pole up me hole pose :rolleyes:


That all pales in comparison though to people who constantly interrupt you when you're doing something because they think what they have to say is something you need to listen to...

lulu1

lulu1 wrote: »

Hold on I must check the dictionary

I'm back

The epitome of bad manners.

silverfeather

lulu1 wrote: »

I'm back

The epitome of bad manners.

ah we don't mind

posturingpat

I don't think kids these days even realise they're being rude, they're all close to being addicted to these online sites on their phones. Facebook twitter tinder etc. I run a bar and people regularly come in with pals and barely speak one word to each other for 2 or 3 hours other than showing each other things on their phone. I find it quite surreal at times.

On a slightly unrelated topic, why do women in particular have to take 200 photos every night they're out and try to get you in the pictures and plaster them all over Facebook with comments like Omg what a great night. If it was such a great night how'd you find the time to take 200 fecking pictures you idiot?

kneemos

Who created manners and who is the adjudicator on bad and good manners?

Filmer Paradise

I am thinking of a new business enterprise.

'Let's say we open a new pub/resteraunt/entertainment venue where there is no coverage whatsoever!

Brilliant!

wakka12

Hmm bit worrying. Never seen a technology addiction as serious as that. Although it could just be social anxiety you know, does she know you well? If my mum brought me to dinner with some family friends I didn't know well I probably wouldn't say a word the whole dinner. People would think Im rude but really I'm just incredibly uncomfortable in the situation and am wishing I could get out of it so badly.

ZENER

. . . and now they want to ban slapping kids . . . hmmm

jamesbere

Their 15 years of age, the last thing they wanted was to be out eating with their parents. It's bad manners granted but adults do it all the time aswell, I've noticed i've gone very bad for it, it's becoming second nuture now.

jamesbere

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

I am thinking of a new business enterprise.

'Let's say we open a new pub/resteraunt/entertainment venue where there is no coverage whatsoever!

Brilliant!

In some pubs you need your phone to look at because you can't hear the person next to you talk as the music is so loud.

lulu1

kneemos wrote: »

Who created manners and who is the adjudicator on bad and good manners?

As far as I am concerned I will be the adjudicator of the way my daughter treats other people in our company and she most certainly will not have a phone in her hand while we are eating.

But make no mistake she would if she could.

Links234

Who cares what the height of bad manners is, I wanna know what the girth of bad manners is!

lulu1

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

I am thinking of a new business enterprise.

'Let's say we open a new pub/resteraunt/entertainment venue where there is no coverage whatsoever!

Brilliant!

IT could be like the smoking ban but sorry I dont think it would last a week

posturingpat

Them pubs with no coverage do exist. They're the ones in the arsehole of nowhere that you go to when you don't want the woman to get hold of ya.

dr.bollocko

ZENER wrote: »

. . . and now they want to ban slapping kids . . . hmmm

And legalise abortions. I wonder is it possible to diagnose bad manners in the first 24 weeks.

cloud493

Links234 wrote: »

Who cares what the height of bad manners is, I wanna know what the girth of bad manners is!

This wideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

obplayer

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

I am thinking of a new business enterprise.

'Let's say we open a new pub/resteraunt/entertainment venue where there is no coverage whatsoever!

Brilliant!

And all you'll get in are the oldies. Do you want a venue with walking stick racks and a pervasive smell of wee?

TheLastMohican

Links234 wrote: »

Who cares what the height of bad manners is, I wanna know what the girth of bad manners is!

Lenny looks about 6' to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sirHoeJ5Td8

Iwasfrozen

Links234 wrote: »

Who cares what the height of bad manners is, I wanna know what the girth of bad manners is!

http://i.imgur.com/mPJkn.jpg

worded

I wonder what tech communication will be like in 10 / 20 years time

Teenagers with virtual reality glasses on even at the dinner table, they never want to take them off.

They have no respect not wanting to participate anymore, these kids will say about their kids.

Be present !

I'd love a pair of them virtual reality goggles now !

fizzypish

It could have been worse. Have you ever had a conversation with 2 15 year loads? They don't have much going on.....

Irishcrx

Drives me crazy I have to say , inviting friends out for dinner or drinks and half them sit there with a face on them like a slapped duck and text away all night, whats the point in coming out then? Same with the 200 photos of every little thing that happens , how can you enjoy yourself when your so busy taking selfie's every 5 seconds. I've never taken one....not even one...ever I don't see the point in it, why does anyone want to look at me face on their timeline everyday, they don't!

I think I read an article on Joe.ie a few weeks ago about leaving phones at home or the table and tried this out last time friends got together. Basically , I told everyone when they came in to put their phones in the middle of the table and leave them there for the night (Unless emergency) gave a speech William Wallace would be proud of about actually talking to each other and trying to enjoy ourselves. First one to reach for the phone , text , take a selfie , go on facebook bought a round of drinks...it worked , nobody touched them for hours and we had great craic.

I was at lunch the other day and one of the people I was with answered his phone and chatted for 10 minutes without so much as an excuse me, even holding up a single index finger to quieten me as I spoke to someone else. Sank in my estimation. Same with texting, makes me think a bit less of the person because it's such bad manners.

People taking selfies all the time is my pet hate. You know what you look like, right? Are you really so insecure or self-obsessed that you need to check every few hours? Who do you think is interested, other than yourself?

Sam Kade

fizzypish wrote: »

It could have been worse. Have you ever had a conversation with 2 15 year loads? They don't have much going on.....

You mean the ones that keep saying he was like, I was like, she was like :mad:

What if you were sitting eating with someone and they just whipped a book outta nowhere and start reading? Happened to me recently, is this old school bad manners?

Aongus Von Bismarck

Bad manners are often at their most apparent when eating in a restaurant. I’m not talking about the sort of bad manners you’d more than likely witness amongst a group of women in their 30’s catching up in their local red sauce Italian for a natter and a few bottles of Nero d'Avola – taking selfies, snorting out through the nose at some vacuous and inane joke, scraping their chair along the floor as they drunkenly try and leave the table – you get the idea.



No, it’s the type of bad manners you see in good Michelin quality restaurants that really annoys me. I spotted a large number of glaring examples when I last had the pleasure of eating in Chapter One in Dublin.



Examples:



Reaching outside their personal space to grab something from the table.

Horsing large mouthfuls of food into their mouths – this is high-quality food in a temple of gastronomy – not a carvery at your local pub.

Gesticulating with their eating utensils.

Putting their jacket on the back of the chair while at the table.

Devouring the basket of bread before the amuse bouche has even arrived.

Photographing the food with a smartphone.



These are fair basic rules of etiquette. It’s almost like some Irish people take pride in how ignorant and bad mannered they can be.

The Backwards Man

Not the amuse bouche

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

No, it’s the type of bad manners you see in good Michelin quality restaurants that really annoys me. I spotted a large number of glaring examples when I last had the pleasure of eating in Chapter One in Dublin.



Examples:

Reaching outside their personal space to grab something from the table.

Horsing large mouthfuls of food into their mouths – this is high-quality food in a temple of gastronomy – not a carvery at your local pub.

Gesticulating with their eating utensils.

Putting their jacket on the back of the chair while at the table.

Devouring the basket of bread before the amuse bouche has even arrived.

Photographing the food with a smartphone.



These are fair basic rules of etiquette. It’s almost like some Irish people take pride in how ignorant and bad mannered they can be.

Scummy bastárds!

strobe

Also bad manners to drag a 15 year old girl to a restaurant and expect her to sit there and make conversation with a bunch of oul ones for the night, tbf.

maximoose

anna080 wrote: »

I see that too with my sister, and she writes crap like "omg lol" "dying" "can't breathe" "hilarious" "so funny" etc. while her facial expression in reality has not changed one bit.
I was sitting beside her once and saw her write to someone on facebook "I'm literally crying laughing at this", but in reality she was half asleep.

Sure you see it enough here on boards

OMG, thanks! Just spat coffee all over my screen!

No you didn't, you gobshîte.

Sam Kade

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Bad manners are often at their most apparent when eating in a restaurant. I’m not talking about the sort of bad manners you’d more than likely witness amongst a group of women in their 30’s catching up in their local red sauce Italian for a natter and a few bottles of Nero d'Avola – taking selfies, snorting out through the nose at some vacuous and inane joke, scraping their chair along the floor as they drunkenly try and leave the table – you get the idea.



No, it’s the type of bad manners you see in good Michelin quality restaurants that really annoys me. I spotted a large number of glaring examples when I last had the pleasure of eating in Chapter One in Dublin.



Examples:



Reaching outside their personal space to grab something from the table.

Horsing large mouthfuls of food into their mouths – this is high-quality food in a temple of gastronomy – not a carvery at your local pub.

Gesticulating with their eating utensils.

Putting their jacket on the back of the chair while at the table.

Devouring the basket of bread before the amuse bouche has even arrived.

Photographing the food with a smartphone.



These are fair basic rules of etiquette. It’s almost like some Irish people take pride in how ignorant and bad mannered they can be.

I dare say old boy but you take table manners to the extreme.

fizzypish

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Putting their jacket on the back of the chair while at the table.

Whats wrong with this? Just because you in a high quality establishment, that doesn't mean some **** won't root through your pockets if you use a general coat hanger. I'd consider this healthy paranoia as oppose to bad manners. Actually when was it ever considered bad manners?

Hyzepher

What did your daughter do for the night if the other 15yr old wasn't communicating?

Aongus Von Bismarck

fizzypish wrote: »

Whats wrong with this? Just because you in a high quality establishment, that doesn't mean some **** won't root through your pockets if you use a general coat hanger. I'd consider this healthy paranoia as oppose to bad manners. Actually when was it ever considered bad manners?

You keep your dinner jacket on. Unbutton it as you sit. Don't take it off and fire it over the back of the chair.

kfallon

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Bad manners are often at their most apparent when eating in a restaurant. I’m not talking about the sort of bad manners you’d more than likely witness amongst a group of women in their 30’s catching up in their local red sauce Italian for a natter and a few bottles of Nero d'Avola – taking selfies, snorting out through the nose at some vacuous and inane joke, scraping their chair along the floor as they drunkenly try and leave the table – you get the idea.



No, it’s the type of bad manners you see in good Michelin quality restaurants that really annoys me. I spotted a large number of glaring examples when I last had the pleasure of eating in Chapter One in Dublin.



Examples:



Reaching outside their personal space to grab something from the table.

Horsing large mouthfuls of food into their mouths – this is high-quality food in a temple of gastronomy – not a carvery at your local pub.

Gesticulating with their eating utensils.

Putting their jacket on the back of the chair while at the table.

Devouring the basket of bread before the amuse bouche has even arrived.

Photographing the food with a smartphone.



These are fair basic rules of etiquette. It’s almost like some Irish people take pride in how ignorant and bad mannered they can be.

Looking down your nose at others.....the absolute height of bad manners imo

hal9000

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Devouring the basket of bread before the amuse bouche has even arrived.

My monocle just fell into my lobster thermidor.

Such savagery!

fizzypish

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

You keep your dinner jacket on. Unbutton it as you sit. Don't take it off and fire it over the back of the chair.

We're on separate wavelengths. Don't own a dinner jacket.

Slideways

People who ask for chips in Michelin Star establishments.

Irishcrx

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Bad manners are often at their most apparent when eating in a restaurant. I’m not talking about the sort of bad manners you’d more than likely witness amongst a group of women in their 30’s catching up in their local red sauce Italian for a natter and a few bottles of Nero d'Avola – taking selfies, snorting out through the nose at some vacuous and inane joke, scraping their chair along the floor as they drunkenly try and leave the table – you get the idea.



No, it’s the type of bad manners you see in good Michelin quality restaurants that really annoys me. I spotted a large number of glaring examples when I last had the pleasure of eating in Chapter One in Dublin.




Examples:



Reaching outside their personal space to grab something from the table.

Horsing large mouthfuls of food into their mouths – this is high-quality food in a temple of gastronomy – not a carvery at your local pub.

Gesticulating with their eating utensils.

Putting their jacket on the back of the chair while at the table.

Devouring the basket of bread before the amuse bouche has even arrived.

Photographing the food with a smartphone.



These are fair basic rules of etiquette. It’s almost like some Irish people take pride in how ignorant and bad mannered they can be.

I love you Aongus...I've read many of your posts and at first I thought you were arogant , stuck up , demoralising , condesending & extremely opinionated.

I still think all of the above and I'm still not sure if any of your posts are serious or if your some sort of super troll , in some ways I find it hard to believe that you actually mean the thing's you say because they are so unbelieveable.

Never the less , your an endless source of amusement and we all need that. Much love...